Mozilla makes some silent changes to Firefox that do not excite its users after sporadic ad views have been reported.
Not only is it Microsoft that changes Edge but Mozilla has also started the changes, having started showing ads in new tabs, with its users reporting that it's happening in all supported platforms desktop.
Such as reported in reddit, ένα μικρό αναδυόμενο παράθυρο εμφανίζεται στο κάτω μέρος της οθόνης και περιλαμβάνει έναν σύνδεσμο προς τη εταιρεία ενοικιάσεων καταλυμάτων Booking.com. Και φυσικά κάνοντας κλικ στο κουμπί “Εύρεση ενός ξενοδοχείου”, οι χρήστες μεταβαίνουν στη address of Booking.
It appears that these messages appear only occasionally and only for a specific set of users, so Mozilla is likely to carry out a limited experiment. In our personal computers we have not yet seen such behavior.
According to tests performed by users on reddit, ad messages may stop appearing if you turn off "Excerpts" from Firefox settings. Although the official "Quotes" update states that they are updates from Mozilla for Firefox, and have nothing to do with ads, the company uses them for its testing.
Mozilla has not issued a statement as to whether it is merely running an experiment or that is the expected behavior in Firefox 64.
However, it goes without saying that users are not happy with the ads displayed in the program tourand although they are allowed to disable the feature, the fact that it is enabled against their will may cause more frustration in the existing user community.
More official information from the Mozilla engineers will probably come to us in the next few days, after the holidays.
